There is a solution to its misuse with strictest enforcement. We have in place the Narcotics Control Bureau, the state police and a number of surveillance agencies."
The first-time lawmaker said he was raising this issue frequently in the Lok Sabha. In his election meetings, he is promising to legalise its cultivation if the NDA is voted to power.
Kashyap is also promising that the import duty on apples from all countries would be increased to save the domestic industry.
Police officials say cannabis and opium fields are grown illegally in vast tracts of Kullu, Mandi, Shimla and Chamba districts, leading to a serious problem of drug cultivation, trafficking and its use.
The lure of drugs and quick bucks attracts foreigners too to the higher reaches and largely unexplored areas of the state where they have become part of opium and cannabis growing and smuggling.
